Crossers - Rilegato

Caputo, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0375411674 ISBN 13: 9780375411670

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2009

Riassunto

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Rumor of War presents a tale inspired by the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border where September 11 widower Gil Castle finds his efforts to heal challenged by dark truths about his fearsome grandfather and retaliations against his act of kindness.

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Recensione

“The enormous malevolence of Sept. 11, 2001, still squats upon the imagination, resisting our efforts to comprehend it. Writers as various as Jay McInerney (The Good Life), Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), John Updike (Terrorist) and Andre Dubus III (The Garden of Last Days) have tried working the events of 9/11 into their novels, but most of these ambitious books were doomed to at least partial failure because our memories of the actual events retain an emotional immediacy that even the most skillfully crafted fiction can't approximate. But Philip Caputo’s Crossers succeeds, in part because it’s about a man who recognizes that the imagination is inadequate to comprehend evil. For Gil Castle, Caputo’s protagonist, the enormity of 9/11 is ‘beyond grasp - an insane act perpetrated by sane minds.’”
            —San Francisco Chronicle
 
“An ambitious, wonderful novel that illuminates the modern U.S.-Mexican border and its evolution during the 20th century.”
            —Chicago Tribune
 
“A memorable, ambitious novel about a man haunted by his past and seeking to escape along the Arizona-Mexico border... [with] a conclusion that will change everyone.”
            —Boston Globe
 
“At once a color-filled action tale; a generational saga with a moral; a touching love story; and a bold lesson in history and its inevitabilities.”
            —Dallas News
 
“Readers of Caputo’s Acts of Faith will be hoping for the same measured, masterly storytelling, informed by sociopolitical concerns, and they won’t be disappointed. Highly recommended.”
            —Library Journal (Starred Review)
           
“Philip Caputo, who won a Pulitzer Prize for reportage, and wrote the seminal Vietnam memoir, A Rumor of War, has long focused his fiction on the moral ambiguities that have accompanied violent conflicts around the world—Vietnam, the Sudan, Iraq. With Crossers, he brings the war home, powerfully evoking an America marked by complexities, contradictions and an uncomfortable relationship with its own past.”
            —BookPage
 
“A masterful tale about what comes of ‘trying to escape history’—from which, the author gives us to understand, there is no safe place to hide.”
 
—Kirkus (Starred)
 
“Gorgeously stark.... Caputo’s west supersedes elemental cowboys and lone justice with the malaise of post-9/11 America and the violence of the Mexican desert—as gruesome as in Iraq—frothing with moral ambiguity and fraught with complicity.”
 
            — Publisher’s Weekly (Starred)

L'autore

Philip Caputo was raised in the suburbs of Chicago. After serving with the Marines in Vietnam, he spent nine years as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, including five years as a foreign correspondent, and shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his reporting on election fraud in Chicago. In 1975 he was wounded in Beirut and during his convalescence completed the manuscript for A Rumor of War, his much acclaimed memoir about his service in Vietnam. In 1977 he left the paper and turned to writing books and magazine articles full time. He is the author of seven works of fiction including Exiles, The Voyage and Acts of Faith, two memoirs, and four works of non-fiction. In addition, he has been a contributing editor for the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, National Geographic, and several other publications. He divides his time between Connecticut and Arizona. His new novel Crossers will be published by Knopf in October, 2009.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0375411674
• ISBN 13: 9780375411670
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 448